Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 10—Programs and the Visual Programmer
34 The Home Control Assistant
Run
When you use the Run element you can start another Windows program. Don’t confuse that with
starting a HCA program. A Windows program is started from the Windows Start button or from a
command line.
The properties for the Run element are:
 The path to the executable file. Typically these end in .EXE
 The directory that the program is started in. The working directory is the directory where a
program will first find any files it opens.
 The command line to pass to the program.
 An option to start the program in the minimized state.
This element is very similar to starting a program from the Run command you get from the Start
button.
Hint: You can embed HCA expressions in the text. See the chapter on expressions and the
expression builder.
Run Script
The run script element starts a text based script using the currently selected script engine.
This is a complex topic and is fully described in the Script chapter.